Comments on: Shorter Link: A rev=canonical WordPress plugin http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/ Developing PHP software in the Real World, by Rob Allen Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:47:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rob... http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25231 Rob... Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:29:22 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25231 No doubt it'll slow down shortly! Rob... No doubt it'll slow down shortly!

Rob...

]]> By: Cristiano Betta http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25223 Cristiano Betta Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:13:20 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25223 Interesting to see the rapid development in 1 day :D Interesting to see the rapid development in 1 day :D

]]> By: Dave Marshall http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25213 Dave Marshall Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:23:40 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25213 Err, I've just finished patching your plugin to allow users to specify the base url, didn't realise someone else had suggested it already! Email me if you want it Rob. Err, I've just finished patching your plugin to allow users to specify the base url, didn't realise someone else had suggested it already!

Email me if you want it Rob.

]]> By: Sam Johnston http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25209 Sam Johnston Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:09:24 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25209 Oh and I'm working on a formal specification for shortlink too at http://code.google.com/p/shortlink/wiki/Specification You've got write access on this and you're already acknowledged here: http://code.google.com/p/shortlink/wiki/Acknowledgements Sam Oh and I'm working on a formal specification for shortlink too at http://code.google.com/p/shortlink/wiki/Specification

You've got write access on this and you're already acknowledged here: http://code.google.com/p/shortlink/wiki/Acknowledgements

Sam

]]> By: Sam Johnston http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25208 Sam Johnston Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:08:13 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25208 I've given you committer access on the "shortlink" plugin too - hoping we can get some consolidation going on here at some point so as not to confuse the hell out of users. Re: short/shorter/shorturl/shortlink *none* of them are standards compliant, which is why I created http://purl.org/net/shortlink while pushing shortlink through the standards process (e.g. Atom and HTML - I'm an invited expert on HTML 5 at W3C so I'll see about what's involved in getting it introduced). short (one of my original suggestions) and shorter are both adjectives and it's not clear whether they apply to the content itself or the link - that basically rules them out. shorturl is both easily confused with shorturi and short_url (a previous iteration). Furthermore the guys at shorturl.com have (and assert) common law trademark rights in it. shortlink is a no brainer but some people (for whatever reason) are still pushing broken alternatives - especially RevCanonical which is fundamentally flawed. Sam I've given you committer access on the "shortlink" plugin too - hoping we can get some consolidation going on here at some point so as not to confuse the hell out of users.

Re: short/shorter/shorturl/shortlink *none* of them are standards compliant, which is why I created http://purl.org/net/shortlink while pushing shortlink through the standards process (e.g. Atom and HTML - I'm an invited expert on HTML 5 at W3C so I'll see about what's involved in getting it introduced).

short (one of my original suggestions) and shorter are both adjectives and it's not clear whether they apply to the content itself or the link - that basically rules them out.

shorturl is both easily confused with shorturi and short_url (a previous iteration). Furthermore the guys at shorturl.com have (and assert) common law trademark rights in it.

shortlink is a no brainer but some people (for whatever reason) are still pushing broken alternatives - especially RevCanonical which is fundamentally flawed.

Sam

]]> By: Rob... http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25207 Rob... Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:55:47 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25207 Yeah - I'll learn how to do WP plugin admin pages and sort out the short domain thing. Will lose alternate too. I wonder what the final decision on the rel attribute's name is gonna be. I suppose I could just do rel="short shorter shorturl shortlink" and not worry about it :) Regards, Rob... Yeah - I'll learn how to do WP plugin admin pages and sort out the short domain thing.

Will lose alternate too.

I wonder what the final decision on the rel attribute's name is gonna be. I suppose I could just do rel="short shorter shorturl shortlink" and not worry about it :)

Regards,

Rob...

]]> By: Sam Johnston http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25206 Sam Johnston Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:42:01 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25206 +1 for specifying a short domain :) Oh it seems I forgot to mention you need to drop "alternate" because you're not providing an alternate version of the *content*. Also a PURL has been allocated for rel=shortlink (http://purl.org/net/shortlink) so you can use it to be standards compliant while we wait for it to be formalised. Sam +1 for specifying a short domain :)

Oh it seems I forgot to mention you need to drop "alternate" because you're not providing an alternate version of the *content*.

Also a PURL has been allocated for rel=shortlink (http://purl.org/net/shortlink) so you can use it to be standards compliant while we wait for it to be formalised.

Sam

]]> By: Cristiano Betta http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25203 Cristiano Betta Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:22:04 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25203 Well done Rob, I was just about to build one myself but it seems you beat me to it. I think it would be interesting though if we can somehow integrate the option to specify your own shorturl domain like Simon Willison did his swtiny.eu domain. Do you think this would be possible? Well done Rob, I was just about to build one myself but it seems you beat me to it.

I think it would be interesting though if we can somehow integrate the option to specify your own shorturl domain like Simon Willison did his swtiny.eu domain. Do you think this would be possible?

]]> By: Sam Johnston http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25187 Sam Johnston Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:08:43 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25187 There are two sources of confusion (outside of rel vs rev which is the most dangerous): underscores vs dashes vs spaces and uri vs url. rel="shortlink" avoids both types. Sam There are two sources of confusion (outside of rel vs rev which is the most dangerous): underscores vs dashes vs spaces and uri vs url.

rel="shortlink" avoids both types.

Sam

]]> By: Rob... http://akrabat.com/wordpress/shorter-link-a-revcanonical-wordpress-plugin/#comment-25186 Rob... Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:06:14 +0000 http://akrabat.com/?p=481#comment-25186 FWIW, I personally prefer a rel="" attribute, but at the end of the day, I'll go with whatever is decided upon as long as it doesn't have a dash or underscore in it! Regards, Rob... FWIW, I personally prefer a rel="" attribute, but at the end of the day, I'll go with whatever is decided upon as long as it doesn't have a dash or underscore in it!

Regards,

Rob...

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